Wednesday, March 31, 2010

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  • Convert Web Page to PDF Using this Free but Effective Online Service  By:  Tom Rutka  Views: 3046
    PDF conversion tool that lets you easily convert web page to PDF document, at no cost. Simply paste the URL of the web page to be converted, and click the "convert to PDF" button.

  • How to Begin Marketing Your Personal Blog  By:  Brad Smith  Views: 1179
    This article will outline the basic steps necessary to begin marketing your personal blog.

  • The Godzilla Nissan Skyline GT-R  By:  Arnold arnoldgaltine  Views: 257
    Nissan is a car company based in Japan. It is an international car manufacturer that has launched cars that are all loved because of its design. The company was recognized because of the innovation that it has applied in car making.

  • Microsoft Outlook Sends Emails Directly to Deleted Items Folder  By:  Mohit Mathur  Views: 236
    The Deleted Items folder is the trash for Microsoft Outlook. Until you manually delete the e-mail message or empty the folder, the messages from it are not permanently deleted. This folder holds the deleted e-mail messages, and thus, prevent data loss that may occur due to accidental deletion of e-mails. But if you empty the folder unknowingly, when it still contains important e-mails, there is no way other than backup or a Deleted Email Recovery tool to restore those messages.

  • Benefits of Recycling  By:  Guna Nadar  Views: 232
    Recycling is the act of processing used or abandoned materials and using it as raw materials for new products. It becomes a civic necessity nowadays to recycle these wastes because of the shortage of the raw materials availability in earth.

  • Cruise Deals and Destinations for Romantic Getaways  By:  Rachel Jackson  Views: 175
    Many cruises, like the Celebrity Century, by Celebrity Cruises, originate off the Florida coast. . These cruises begin at around $500 per person for week long trips! The Celebrity Cruises' Celebrity Millennium traverses the cool seas of this untamed wilderness area, beginning in Vancouver and traveling through the Inside Passage, Ketchikan, Juneau, Skagway, Icy Strait Point, Hubbard Glacier and Seward.

  • Anti-Stress Treatment and Ways to Cure Stress  By:  Dr. Mital John  Views: 175
    We all have a vast reservoir of adaptive energy to draw on, but if our response to stressful situations is rigid, not flexible, we block that energy flow and are robbed of our ability to act creatively and imaginatively. Some people consistently overreact to their day-to-day life.

  • Web design  By:  Emma Stone Stone  Views: 159
    Many people can recognize a great design on web but most of them do not really know what contributes a great design? A good design is a foundation of a great website.

  • Bridesmaid Dresses that Your Friends will Love  By:  Karen Zabel  Views: 148
    Everyone has heard the clichés and jokes about bridesmaid’s dresses; in fact, the movie “27 Dresses” explores the idea with pretty hilarious results.Picture a style with a modified sweetheart neckline, cap sleeves and flattering ruched waist. This dress is ideal for afternoon and evening ceremonies. Similarly, a style that offers a slimming empire waistline and simple yet stylish V-neckline, flowing toward a full, knee-length skirt would look great as well.

  • How to obtain acne-free skin naturally  By:  Cory Thiarello  Views: 144
    Is your teenager suffering from acne? I know it’s really frustrating to look your face into mirror when harsh acne problem have affected you. But fret not! Read this article, it will direct you with a variety of smart ways to throw away acne. Because of hormonal changes in body, there occurs an increased flow of sebum that leads to teenage acne.

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

World Affairs

World Affairs

  • Applications to Country Programs Against Corruption

    Written by: effiong ekpo
    A campaign against corruption must go beyond words, indeed beyond new laws Institutional adjustment is needed to limit the scope of corruption (and more generally, to enhance efficiency)

  • Animals Facing Extinction In 2010

    Written by: Nathan Martyn
    In 2004 there was a determination that over fifteen thousand species of plants and animals on the planet were facing extinction The reasons for this are varied, but the primary factor has become humanity s reckless destruction of their local habitats and the global eco sphere
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Family Concerns

Family Concerns

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A little in the history of surfing

A little in the history of surfing

Surfing does, has done, and continues to, have a grip on the world. Those who start it rarely quit. Where did this unusual sport originate? What challenges did it face to become the sport it is? Read on for a little of the history behind surfing.

First records of surfing.
Lieutenant King who went along with the more famous Captain Cook on his voyage of exploration, recorded the natives of Hawaii doing ‘he’e nalu’ (Hawaiian for surfing, meaning literally, wave sliding) in 1779 A.D. This was the first time the sport had ever been recorded in writing by a westerner. He’s recorded as saying in Captain Cooks journal (King finished off Cooks journal after he as killed);

“"The Men sometimes 20 or 30 go without the swell of the surf, and lay themselves flat upon an oval piece of plan about their size and breadth, they keep their legs close on top of it, and their arms are used to guide the plank, they wait at the time of the greatest swell that sets on shore, and altogether push forward with their arms to keep on its top, it sends them in with a most astonishing Velocity”

Although Lieutenant King, ‘discovered’ surfing for the western world around 330 years ago, scientists have other evidence from western Polynesia such as cave drawings and tribal stories, that suggest surfing, in one form or another, has been ongoing for around 3000 years!

Importance of surfing to the natives
Hawaiians loved to surf. Their chiefs, showed their prowess by showing off their surfing skills. Surfboards were prized items. Practically everybody on the island, knew how to surf.

While he recorded the feats of the people on Hawaii, Lieutenant King didn’t fully understand the significance of surfing to the natives. It was an integral part of their caste based system of ruling. Tribe leaders had their own private beaches to use to enjoy the waves. Lower level people were generally forbidden to use these beaches. An exception might be granted if they were seen to exhibit particular skill in the sport. If, a commoner was, allowed to use the leaders beach it was considered a great honour.

Legendary stories recorded in songs and chants, abound from both commoner and king, of lives risked and of heroic actions all while in the surf. However in the wake of Captain Cooks voyage, things were to change.

Surfing gets forced out
After Cooks voyage, the Hawaiian islands became the place of choice for all seafarers, captains, adventurers and the like to visit. This influx of people and cultures changed Hawaiian life quickly. For example within 50 years of Cooks visit, Liholiho, the son and successor of Kamehameha I (Chief of the island at the time), swayed by the culture of the Europeans, sat down with his mother and other high chiefesses to eat dinner as equals. Since anybody could remember, men eating with woman was strictly ‘not done’.

This single act signalled the end for the system of laws, Kapu, that the islanders had followed since the beginning of time.

With Kapu done, all the cultural and ritual ties that were associated with that and surfing went. Commoners and heiresses could mix without the commoners worrying that they might come to an un-timely death. Beaches were no longer segregated to different social classes. All traditional life had went the way of the dodo and the islanders lives, with no set structure, went into chaos. Enter the Christian missionaries.

In 1820 the missionaries arrived and began converting the islanders from Polytheism to Christianity. Within ten years the islanders were all about the strict moral codes associated with the way of the cloth, rather than their normal, laid back, island life.

Once converted the missionaries had the islanders focusing more on reading, writing, working and wearing clothes than playing or surfing. In fact surfing was actively discouraged as it was seen to be against Gods rules. The future did not look good.

The only thing going out faster than surfing was the Hawaiians themselves. The ‘foreigners’ had brought disease with them that the islanders had no immunity from. From a spritely population of around 800,000 when Cook arrived in 1779 it dwindled to around 40,000 by 1896, a loss of 95% in only 117 years.

The revival
Despite all the missionaries efforts to the contrary, surfing was never totally dismissed from the island. At the turn of the 20th century, a few die hards remained surfing at Kalehuawehe on the south shore of Oahu. There are photos of solitary surfers on the beach from this time where once in the past there had been hundreds.

The revival of surfing from the brink of extinction was brought about strangely enough from the same race of people that sought to rid the island of it in the first place.

Jack London who was a popular writer of the time visited the island and was introduced to Alexander Ford. Ford, in turn, introduced him to celebrated beach boy George Freeth and from them, London was introduced to surfing.

So impressed was London, that he wrote a book, A Royal Sport: Surfing in Waikiki. Needless to say this book did well. So well in fact that one of it’s stars George Freeth was invited to show Californians, how to surf. That too was another success for surfing.

Over the next few years these champions of the sport would breathe the necessary life, back into it. London wrote about it and Freeth showcased it to the world. Ford went about campaigning for the sport, founding the ‘Outrigger canoe club’ on Waikiki beach, which focused much on promoting the sport overseas. The fourth saviour was the final thing needed to bring it permanently to the world stage.

Duke Paoa Kahanamoku
Duke, was a native Hawaiian and a lover of surfing and all things water. Blessed with huge hands and feet, Duke took part in the 1912 and 1916 Olympics, winning Gold in the 100 meter freestyle each time. He was generally considered the fastest man in water.

In 1915 he was invited to Australia to perform in New South Wales. Pretty soon after this visit, the whole country fell in love with the sport, putting Oz on track to be a surfing Mecca.

The world knew about surfing largely from the efforts of London, Freeth and Ford. Now that such a popular figure was doing it, everybody wanted to try it.

Conclusion
Surfing was enjoyed by a few for thousands of years. Under influential pressure from Europe and the missionaries, it was nearly lost for good, but never quite vanished. Thanks largely to the efforts of four men, it would return to the world and reach unimaginable heights.

Happy Surfing.
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How to Begin Marketing Your Personal Blog

How to Begin Marketing Your Personal Blog


So you have a blog, you’ve made several updates, and yet your hits fail to climb. How do you fix this? It’s hard for people to find one blog out of thousands, especially a new one, and presuming your content is original and worth reading, how do you let people know it exists? The role of self-promotion and marketing in the world of blogging is an important one, and central to the success of any blog, be it new or old. This article will guide you through the basic steps necessary to properly market your blog without resorting to spamming websites and message boards with your URL.

When beginning a marketing strategy for your blog, the first thing you need to do is take into account both your target audience and your content. Let’s say that your blog is political in nature, devoted to commentary, rants and other musings concerning the current political landscape at home and abroad. One of your best bets is to visit like-minded sites, such as The Huffington Post, as well as smaller, more personal blogs, and commenting on their posts. The key is to provide insightful comments that genuinely contribute to the discussion. After some time, you can leave a signature including your URL, or simply e-mail the blogger in question and ask them to take a look at your website. This leads us to the next step in marketing, which is link exchanging.

After your blog has become established, or after it has several top quality posts, you can start asking likeminded blogs if they would consider a link exchange. In many niches, however, such as film blogging, many bloggers will pick up on other blogs and link without a request. Before you begin asking for links, however, start linking to other blogs you enjoy, as well as some top rated blogs. Odds are the owners will eventually discover they have been linked, and if they enjoy your content, they will provide for you a link to your site on their own without the need to ask for one.

After you’ve become established enough to where you can cut back on the linking, focusing on top quality content (although always necessary), should be your primary concern. By having a lot of quality posts (remember: quality over quantity), you open up a new world of online marketing found in social media websites such as Digg and Reddit. These sites allow you to submit news stories, blog posts, pictures and the like, where they are then upvoted or downvoted by the users. The most popular posts can make it to the front page, exposing your work to a whole new audience. The trick, however, is to only submit articles you yourself would want to read. Submitting any old article you write will likely earn yourself the reputation as a spammer, and that’s the last thing any blogger needs.

That’s all there is to it. Provided you keep churning out quality content, over time you will see your readership start to grow. Once this happens you can branch out into employing the use of ads to make a few extra dollars. More readers means more opportunities, so keep plugging away and with a bit of hard work and maybe even a little luck, your blog can become an internet sensation.

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Is a Website and Internet Marketing Worth the Expense and Hassel?

Is a Website and Internet Marketing Worth the Expense and Hassel?


Businesses have found a new marketing potential by pursuing Internet marketing through their website. Those that still don’t have websites are realizing that they are already way behind. They are taking action to gain at least a minimal presence on the worldwide web.

By creating your website’s presence customers will become aware of your business by using the Internet’s capacity to display your catalog of products and services. Your website’s ability to be open continuously extends your business marketing hours without a physical presence. You can update information about your business to notify your customers on your website anytime, anywhere. The changes can be seen instantly around the world to attract new clients. Old customers will like the ease of ordering and communicating. Through Internet marketing new customers will be grateful to have found you at 3 a.m.

Your website can also provide close interaction with customers. You can interact with them through surveys and other data-acquiring designs.

An Internet marketing campaign along with your website will give you online sales, day and night. By empowering your customers to purchase products themselves, they won’t have to travel or call back if you lines are busy. A website can be your customer’s ticket to freedom: freedom from busy signals, freedom from business hours, freedom from the constraints of brick and mortar.

What other benefits might you find through a website and a Internet marketing campaign? You can design a message that reaches an international audience. And your domain is a whole lot cheaper than constantly advertising on the Yellow Pages or other paper directories. You can attach a map to your website to guide customers to easily to your location. Or, if you use your website as a virtual store, there will be no need for you to provide customers with air conditioning or in-store service staff. Shoplifting will be someone else’s worry.

Communication is a vital business concern. The Internet is capable of providing secure connections between customers and staff, even on opposite ends of the earth. Research shows that businesses with websites grow 46% faster than those without websites. You can add chat and email campaigns to communicate to your customers and remind them of your products and offers.

Customers will enjoy greatly improved service. They will be delighted as you engage them with technical support and product specifications through the Internet.

Once your website is created, promote it. Use Internet market campaigns to drive customers. You can tell your friends about it by e-mailing them and by posting your website address to group discussions. You can hire an SEO (search engine optimization) expert to gain traffic and promote your website.

To conclude, the Internet offers a wide array of benefits for promoting your business. Benefits include reduction of expenses, operations improvement, income increase, visitor awareness of your products and services, online shopping, and extension of business hours.

Analysis of your business needs and values will help you realize the importance of putting your business on line. Presence on the Internet, however minimal, will surely increase the chances of your business success.
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